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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor's only...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
K.'s aunt, who works at the Bellsong Academy for Girls, has invited K. to attend the school. But as soon as she arrives, K. notices some strange goings-on: her aunt has suddenly taken ill; there are only three other students and no regular classes; and a statue speaks to K. when no one else is around.
5) Dark times
Author
Series
Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling in her homemade Time-Out Machine, Emily journeys to the eighteenth century to uncover the truth behind a Strange family rumor.
6) Eli the Good
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Kentucky, in the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and other family problems, as well as concern about his tough but troubled best friend, Edie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her mother, and without music in her life, Rumi turns to the friendship of a teenage surfer named Kai, and an eighty-year-old named George Watanabe. And Rumi is determined to write the song she and...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delia's mother is declared dead when her ship disappears on the way to Antarctica, but when Delia arrives in New York to live with aunts she has never met, she begins trying to figure out what really happened to her mother.
10) Guarding secrets
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since her mother went to prison to await execution, eleventh-grader Camila Hernandez has been shuffled from one aunt to another, avoiding friendships and keeping to herself in hopes no one will learn her secret, and worrying that she will turn out to be a criminal, too.
11) Blood secret
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the Spanish Inquisition.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.
15) Defying the diva
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During Haley's freshman year of high school, a campaign of gossip and bullying causes her to be socially ostracized, but after spending the summer living with her aunt, working at a resort, making new friends, and dating a hunky lifeguard, she learns how to stand up for herself and begins to trust again.
16) Tending to Grace
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When Cornelia's mother runs off with a boyfriend, leaving her with an eccentric aunt, Cornelia must finally confront the truth about herself and her mother.
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